Free English Class! Topic: Shopping! 🏪🛒🛍️ (Lesson Only)

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Well hello and welcome to this English lesson about shopping.
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Shopping is something that we all do in order to live in
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order to go through your day. You have to buy things every
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once in a while. We need to buy food. We need to buy clothes.
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We need to buy houses if we live in houses. Um we have to
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buy a car if we need to drive to work. So shopping the act of
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taking your money and exchanging that money for
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something is very very common. These are usually very popular
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English lessons. Whenever I talk about shopping people are
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quite interested. So please enjoy this lesson about
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shopping where you'll learn lots of words and phrases that
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we use as English speakers when we go shopping. Before we get
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started I do want to mention there is a study pack for this
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lesson. If you go to Bob the Canadian. com you can find that
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study pack and there's also a link in the description below.
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That study pack has As all of the original slides. A
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crossword puzzle, a word search, a matching activity, a
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multiple choice activity. It has a lot of support materials
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that you can use as an independent English learner or
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if you're an English teacher you can use them in your
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classroom. So if you're interested please head over to
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Bob the Canadian. com and look for that. So the general term
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for someone who buys things is shopper. When you go to the
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mall you will see lots of shoppers. Um when I go to the
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I'm a shopper. So a shopper is a person who is engaged in the
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act of shopping. So if I take my wallet I seem to have lost
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my wallet. Oh it's over there. And I go to a store and I buy
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something I am a shopper. Um I'm similar to the person in
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the chat. I think it was right winter. I don't go to the mall
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without knowing what I want to buy. So I'm a very focused
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shopper. I don't just wander around and buy things randomly.
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But the who buys things is a shopper. And there's two ways
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to talk about the act of shopping. We can say shop like
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you just the verb to shop or to go shopping. So I could say
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this. Tomorrow I'm going to shop at the mall or tomorrow
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I'm going to go shopping at the mall. Both sentences work. Both
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are completely correct. And this is the verb we use to talk
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about buying things. So if you go to the mall you're going to
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the mall to shop. Or you're going to mall to go shopping.
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We also sometimes say to do some shopping. I need to do
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some shopping this weekend. I need new shoes and a new pair
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of shorts. Now there's a few different kinds of shopping.
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And we just add the word in front to describe it. If I need
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food I go grocery shopping. So I go to the grocery store or
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supermarket. And I go grocery shopping. I might say to Jen I
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need to do a bit of grocery shopping after school today. Is
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there anything we need? If I need clothes I would go clothes
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shopping. Jen and the kids really like going clothes
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shopping. I think everyone likes to have new clothes. So
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we go clothes shopping. Not a lot. But it's probably one of
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the more common things that we shop for. So if you need food
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you go food shopping or you go grocery shopping. Sorry if you
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go grocery shopping. If you need clothes you go clothes
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shopping. If you need a car you can actually go car shopping as
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well. So car shopping is something that you do when you
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need to buy a car. You might go to a couple of different places
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to look at the cars they have. We call those places car
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dealerships. So you might go to three or four different car
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dealerships on a Saturday to do some car shopping. You're going
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to figure out which car you want. You're going to decide
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which car you are going to buy. So notice as well shopping
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doesn't always involve actually buying something. So I can go
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shopping at the mall and come home and say I bought some
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shoes. I can also go shopping at the mall and come home and
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say I didn't buy anything. So both are equally correct. So I
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guess you don't technically have to buy something to be to
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go shopping. And then you can go house shopping. Um so if you
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want to buy a house you don't buy the first house you see. In
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Canada you would call someone called a realtor. And a realtor
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is someone who will take you and show you different houses.
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They will take you house shopping. And then you can see
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few different houses. You can decide on what house you like
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and you can buy one that you feel comfortable living in. So
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very nice. Jen and I didn't ever do this. We didn't go
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house shopping because we bought our house from my mom.
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And then there's of course online shopping. A relatively
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new kind of shopping. Online shopping is shopping that you
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do on your computer. Uh or on your phone. Um so you decide
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you need to buy concert tickets. You go on your phone
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and you buy concert tickets. Maybe you want to buy a new
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computer. So you go on your phone and you do some online
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shopping and you buy a new computer. So online shopping
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another way to spend money to buy things. Now I should have
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changed this picture. I should have found a picture with paper
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grocery bags. In Canada when you buy groceries when you buy
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food at the grocery store or supermarket they now put them
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in paper bags or you need to bring your own bags. I always
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bring my own bags. We do not have plastic grocery bags in my
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part of Ontario Canada anymore. They're just not allowed. So we
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decided that plastic bags are not allowed anymore. There are
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no plastic bags. So I should have changed this picture to
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something a little more current. Now if you go to the
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grocery store if you need bags they will give you paper bags
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and they will charge you 10 cents for each bag. So you do
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have to pay for the bags now. We're doing it for the
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environment. Um plastic bags are not good for the
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environment. We also have shopping bags. And there's less
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of these now too. People are more likely to just carry their
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items. Or people might get one bag at the first store they
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shop at. One shopping bag. And then use that for the rest of
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their shopping trip. We'll do that sometimes. We'll buy
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something at a store at the mall and they'll give us a big
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shopping bag. And then at each each store we go to after that
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we'll just keep putting the things in the first shopping
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bag because we don't need well like this lady has too many
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shopping bags. That stuff could have all fit in one or two bags
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I think and I think that would have been a little bit better.
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Then of course we have price and you find the price on the
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price tag. So the price is what the vendor or store or sales
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person has decided they want to sell the item for. How much
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money they want for the item. So if you look here this kale
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is $2 or three for 5 dollars. That's a pretty good price
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actually. Um you eat kale. It's quite healthy by the way. We
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grow kale in our garden along with the flowers. Um and then
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we usually let it freeze once or twice outside before we
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harvest it. But anyways price is what you pay for an item.
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And if it is a tag like if it's hanging like this. This is just
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the price written on a card or a piece of paper. But this is
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an actual price tag. A little piece of paper hanging from the
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article of clothing or hanging from the thing that you want to
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buy telling you how much it costs. And then if you want to
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pay you can pay with cash or money Um we use the word cash a
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lot in my part of the world. So Jen might say hey do you can
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you pay for this? Do you have cash on you? And what she's
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saying is do you have actual like bills in your wallet? Do
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you have $5 bills, $20 bills, $50 bills? And I'll say yeah
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yeah I have money. I brought money with me or I have cash.
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The other way to pay is of course with a gift card. So a
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gift card is a card for a specific store and it basically
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has a certain amount of money on it. I actually have an
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Amazon gift card. I have one right here. I'm not going to
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show you the back because if I think if you can see the code
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you could steal it. So this is an Amazon gift card. Hopefully
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this focuses. And it says on the back 0$25, Well it's not
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bad. Sometimes my kids give me Amazon gift cards. Um like they
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get them as a gift and then I order something from Amazon. I
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do some online shopping. And then they give me the gift card
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to pay me back. You can also pay with a credit card or a
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debit card. And these work slightly differently. A credit
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card basically they send you a bill every month. A debit card
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takes the money straight from your bank account and gives it
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to the store. So let me repeat. If you have a Visa card or a
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Mastercard when you use that pay by sliding it or tapping it
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or inserting it and punching in your code you are actually
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visa's actually paying for your stuff and then Visa charges you
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interest and you have to pay them back. A debit card the
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money simply comes straight out of your bank account. It's
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always better to pay with a debit card. Cos then you're not
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borrowing money in order to buy something. Coupons are pieces
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of paper that help you get a deal or something cheaper at a
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store. So there might be a coupon in a newspaper or on a
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in a flyer and it simply says 25% off. Bring this coupon to
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the store. Buy whatever you want. We'll give you 25% off.
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When you're buying things online there often can be
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discount codes. If you punch this discount code in you will
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get a certain percentage off. Or you can buy two things for
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the price of one with an a discount code. Grocery store at
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supermarket. So we use both words here in Canada. When you
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talk about the store that you go to to buy food we would call
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it a grocery store or a supermarket. I often use the
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word grocery store. I think it might be very Canadian. I know
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I'm going to say on the supermarket. In French I think
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you say Super Marche which is the French equivalent of
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supermarket. Um if someone says the word supermarket I know
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what they mean. It's just not a word that I use very commonly.
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I often just say grocery store. Hey I'm going to go to the
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grocery store today. Um hey kids I'm going the grocery
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store after work. Is there anything you want me to buy? We
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also have malls which are that's the short form for
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shopping mall. A shopping mall is a large building with many
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many stores inside. Shopping malls by the way are really
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nice places to go in the winter in Canada. When it's minus 20
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degrees outside it can be fun to just go to the shopping mall
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to do some shop To shop to go shopping. Um even if you don't
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need to buy anything or what to buy anything because they're
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big enough that you can you can walk quite a bit like you can
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walk if you walked the entire shopping mall. It might be a
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whole kilometer of walking. So I have in the past on really
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cold days if I want to get some steps in for my fitness
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tracker. I might go with Jen to the mall and do some walking.
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But a mall sometimes has two floors or three floor You can
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see here there's an escalator that people are going up and
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down. Um and a mall just has like 100 or 200 stores. It's a
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great place to go if you need to go to a variety of stores to
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buy things. You go to the shopping mall or what we just
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usually call the mall. So some people ask sometimes what's the
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difference between a store and a shop? So in North America
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stores are generally bigger. When I use the word shop I'm
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often talking about like a nice little store in a town. Um but
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that being said it is interchangeable. You could say
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there's some really cute shops at the mall. There's some
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really cute stores at the mall. So again for me as a Canadian
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and I think in North America stores Usually means something
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a bit bigger and a shop is something a little bit smaller.
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Um the street where the farmers market is. There's a there's
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some nice shops on that street. There's also some big stores on
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that street. So it's not a hard and fast rule. Like it's just
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kind of how Bob uses it. But I wouldn't use the word shop to
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talk about a really really big store that sells tools. I would
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call that a store. A hardware store actually. So for me store
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and shop have to do with size. I think in the UK shop is a
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more common way to talk about stores. So shopping cart. By
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the way this is called a trolley I think in the UK. If
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you're learning British English you're on the wrong channel.
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But that's okay. You can stay. We call this a shopping cart or
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a grocery cart or just a cart. So when I go to the grocery
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store I go and get a cart. I go get a grocery cart before I
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start shopping. Now you are probably familiar though with
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the word shopping cart. Or the word because when you do online
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shopping we still use this term. When you buy something on
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Amazon it goes into your shopping cart. It goes into
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your cart. Uh even though it's a virtual cart. Um but yes I
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would call this a shopping cart again if you are on the other
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side of the Atlantic. If you are in Britain you would
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probably call this a trolley. I think that's what they call it.
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We just call it grocery cart. Seems simpler to me. When you
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go to a store it's always fun when things are on sale or when
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the store has a sale. Let me use those two terms again. A
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store can have a sale. So you might say oh that store is
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having a sale. A lot of stuff is on sale. So notice I'm using
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it differently. The store has a sale. There is a sale at that
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store. The stuff in the store is on sale. Usually in Canada
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all of the summer clothing is on sale in September. They know
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that it's hard to sell bathing suits and T-shirts in the
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winter. And in the a lot of the winter clothing is on sale. The
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store will have a sale and the winter clothes will be on sale
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in March and April. Because they would rather sell the the
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winter clothes instead of keeping keeping all the winter
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clothes through the summer. So this has a lot of names. But
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when you are at a store or shop when you are done shopping you
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need to pay for things. So you need to find the till or the
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checkout or the register or the cash register or the counter or
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the front counter. We have a number of different words for
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it. The most common is probably checkout, okay? So, if I was
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buying, let's see here. If I was buying this pair of
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glasses, I would need to find the till or the checkout or the
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cash register or the front counter in order to pay for
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these. And the most common word would be checkout. And it's
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also the verb. Oh I need to checkout. I need to find the
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checkout I can checkout. Usually though you would say I
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need to find the checkout so I can pay for all of this stuff.
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Um yeah. Welcome to English. Sometimes there's lots of
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different words for things. Uh and then now we have this is
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where the updated part of the lesson comes in. We have a lot
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more stores with self checkout. This is becoming more and more
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common in Canada. Almost every grocery store that I go to now
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has self checkout. Okay. Self checkout is when you walk up to
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one of these machines which we call the self checkout machine.
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Or just the self checkout. And then you scan your items
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yourself. So you go like beep and then you put it on the on
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the on the little I think a scale. I think these machines
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weigh everything and then the machine knows if you're lying
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or cheating. Um but self checkout is becoming much more
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popular in Canada. Um we see it almost in every grocery store
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now. I I don't mind it. It's if you're in a hurry it's kind of
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nice. And there's also stores. Now I have not seen a store
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like this. But I watched a video maybe these are more
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popular in Europe and other parts of the world where when
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you go grocery shop You get a cart and you get a scanner and
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as you shop you scan the items with the scanner and then at
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the end you you just pay and you're done. Like it's kind of
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a different way of doing self checkout. Kind of similar
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though. If you have this in your country. Let me know in
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the chat if you use scanners in your country. And then there's
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two kinds of people at a store. There's a cash here. This is
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the person who works at the checkout. The person who works
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at the till. And then we have a store clerk. This is someone
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who helps you in the store. So if you are done shopping you go
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to the checkout and the cashier will ring up we still use that.
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I never thought about that. She'll ring up your total.
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There's no ringing anymore. But she will scan each item and
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tell you how much money you need to pay. If though I am in
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a clothing store or I'm in a grocery store and I can't find
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something. I might ask a store clerk. I'm at I might ask a
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clerk to help me find the bananas for instance. Hey could
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you tell me where the bananas are? That's something I might
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say to a clerk. So the cashier will check you out. The cashier
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will ring in or scan in all your items and then tell you
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how much you owe and the clerk will help you find things. Now
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Jen and I talked about this one. We often just refer to a
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clerk as a worker. Like if I'm in a store and if I have a
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question I might say have you seen a worker? Um if you see a
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store worker let me know and I because I want to ask them
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something. But clerk is definitely the correct term for
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sure. Receipt. So a receipt is a piece of paper you get after
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you buy something. Some stores now send you a receipt via
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email. But usually when I go to my grocery store when I'm done
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buying groceries they give me a little piece of paper. It comes
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out of the cash register and they hand it to me and it tells
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me how much money I spent and it has a list of all the things
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that I buy. When I go to the grocery store and get groceries
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and also buy myself a chocolate bar sometimes Jen looks at the
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receipt later in the day and she says you bought a chocolate
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bar? Did you get me one? So it's important to know what to
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do with your receipt. Also when I buy something for our
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business I keep the receipt because we want to enter the
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amount we spent into our accounting software when you
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run a business it's important to keep your receipt so if the
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government ever asked you what you spent you would have proof
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of what you spent and then you want to keep it as well in case
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you want to do a return or an exchange if you buy flowers
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from us and if they die the next day which never happens.
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You should come back to market the next week and we will
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either give you a return. We will give you your money back
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or you can exchange it for a new bouquet of flowers. This
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happens quite regularly. I actually had a pair of shoes
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once and when I bought them, they didn't fit. I bought them
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online and they were the right size but they still felt really
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tight. So, I brought them to the actual store. The store
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sells online and they have a store and I return them and
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they gave me my money back. I wanted to exchange them for a
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pair that was a little bit bigger but they didn't have
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them. So a return is when you bring it back and they give you
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money. An exchange is when you bring it back and they give you
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something else from the store. Shoes are a great example. If
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you buy size nine and a half and they don't fit you might
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want to exchange them for size ten. And you should bring your
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receipt by the way. If you don't have your receipt, you
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can't return or exchange stuff. Sometimes, you just want a
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refund, okay? So, a refund is the name we give for when they
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give you money back. So, when you return something, they give
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you a refund. When you buy something, you give them money.
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When you return something, they give you a refund. They give
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you your money back. Sometimes, customers get angry in a store
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and they want to refund. They demand a refund. Like I want a
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refund. This is ridiculous. This shoe broke the first time
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I wore it. I'm never buying shoes here again. That's what
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an angry customer might say. When we talk about hours we're
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talking about not just when the stores open during the day but
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what days they're open. So if someone said to Jen and I what
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are your hours? Actually we don't have hours. Let me let me
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give a better example. If I went to the hardware store and
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I said to the store clerk what are your hours? He would say oh
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we're open Monday through Saturday eight to 6. So you can
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see here opening hours Tuesday to Friday 7: 30 AM to 5PM
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Saturday 8AM to 5PM so again we use the word hours but it
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refers to the days and the time during those days that a store
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is open some stores are open twenty-four hours there you go
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we also have delivery and shipping let me kind of explain
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the difference here delivery is the act of bringing something
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to someone's house or apartment okay so when you order pizza it
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comes with free delivery They bring it to your house. Um the
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act of coming in your driveway walking up to your door and
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giving you a pizza is delivery. Okay. So when you buy a
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mattress sometimes you need delivery because the mattress
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doesn't fit in your car. And so you need delivery. Shipping is
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similar. Shipping is when something leaves a store and
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the time from when it leaves your store to when it gets to
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your house. That's the shipping process. And so we kind of use
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these interchangeably though. They're very very similar. In
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fact sometimes you get free delivery. Sometimes you get
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free shipping and it means the same thing. Okay. But generally
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delivery is the act. Like when the person is at my house he's
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making a delivery. But when I pay for shipping I'm paying for
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the item to leave the store travel down the road and come
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to my house. I didn't explain that very well. They are kind
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of the same thing. But there is kind of a slight difference.
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Maybe someone in the chat can explain it a little bit better.
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But sometimes something is too big and you need to pay for
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delivery or you need to pay for shipping. Sometimes you want to
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buy some clothes. Maybe you need to buy a new pair of
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pants. You need to buy a few shirts and you go to a clothing
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store to do some clothes shopping. And you want to try
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things on. And so you would ask where are the fitting rooms or
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where are the change rooms. So a fitting room is a small place
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like this where you can go and take your shirt off and put on
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the new shirt and see how it fits. Look in a mirror and see
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how it looks and then decide if you want to buy it or not. Uh
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then at the mall sometimes you are hungry. And so malls have
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what are called food courts. So a food court is a place where
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there are many restaurants and lots of tables and chairs to
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sit at. And you can decide oh today I'd like a hamburger.
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Today I'd like a wrap. Today I'd like french fries with
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gravy. Today I'd like pizza. Today I'd like some samosas.
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Today I'd like an empanada. Today I'd like to have some
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pierogies. There's so many options at a food court. So you
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kind of low and decide hm what looks the best. What am I
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craving when you crave something it's what you want to
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eat. And then you order it. Usually when I go to the food
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court I usually get pizza. Sometimes I get a hamburger. Uh
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and then a couple of terms to finish off here in stock and
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out of stock. Let me make these a little bit bigger. When a
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store has something in stock it means that they have that item.
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Okay so you can see here this cleaner is in stock. If you
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look at the shelf you can see that there are bottles of
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cleaner there. Above though there are no bottles. So they
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are out of stock. So when something is in stock it means
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it's something the store sells and they have it in the store.
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When it's out of stock it's something the store normally
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sells but they don't have any in the store at this time. So
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when something goes on sale the store sometimes has lots of
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that item in stock. But sometimes something's on sale
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and then very quickly they're out of stock. They just don't
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have anymore. It's disappointing when you go to a
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store to buy something that's on sale and they say sorry
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we're out of stock or we sold out this morning that would be
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another way to put it. Uh and then you can of course ask for
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something called a rain check. That means when the product is
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back in stock you can come and pay the price that you would
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have paid when it was on sale. Anyways when something's in
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stock it means they have it. When something's out of stock
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it means they no longer have it. They have sold out. There
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are none left on the shelf.
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